Hi, I'm Álvaro. I'm a software engineer who has been helping to build enterprise software within the SAP ecosystem for several ...
I mean... I could, right? Seeing how all this has progressed lately, we know the capabilities of assistants for writing code. We've tested them and verified that this is only the beginning of establishing a platform on which to rely to build code faster and faster. I'm not exactly talking about vibe-coding —as an engineer, I've always rejected the notion of building something based on how you…
AI is automation. As such, it follows rules that engineers have identified over decades. Systems like Jidoka positioned machines as fundamental to process improvement and task automation — but the human remained the one who turned the wheel. The "centaur" concept from chess describes a human-machine team where the human contributes judgment and the machine contributes computing power. But nothing…
Now that I got your attention... The current race toward "10x software engineering" powered by AI agents follows the same pattern as the Tampa Bay death metal scene between 1987 and 1993. And I'm going to argue that this comparison is not just a joke to get your attention—or not just that, I mean—but a genuinely useful lens to examine where we are, where we're heading, and what questions we may be…
Ok, rant incoming. Please be advised of the possibility of finding toxic levels of digressing and rambling in this post It seems very distant now, but only because the immense weight we've insisted on giving artificial intelligence has accelerated the pace of time for those of us who have decided (or been forced) to follow the matter more or less closely. Not so long ago, as I say, I attended an…
"So, how many TechEds have you attended so far?" asked the man with the blue beard from the stage where, seconds later, I would co-present an orchestration demo using MCPs on ABAP. "It's my first TechEd," I replied. "Well, not physically, but online?" he insisted. To that, I could respond—without feeling like an weirdo—that I'd attended quite a few. Indeed, it was my first in-person TechEd. In…